Agilitas IT Solutions has announced that its chief marketing officer, Richard Eglon, will leave the firm after eight years.
He will officially leave the company in August 2023 and wants to spend time with his family after many years managing a busy and fast-paced work schedule.
He joined Agilitas in 2015 as marketing director before being promoted to chief marketing officer in 2021. Eglon built Agilitas’ channel services brands, and was responsible for setting and communicating strategic direction and executing go-to-market plans as well as its ESG initiative.
The channel is finding it challenging to keep new staff and find new talent during the ‘The Great Resignation,’ according to a new report from global channel services provider Agilitas IT Solutions.
For those who came in late, the great resignation is caused by workers suddenly deciding there is more to life than a long commute to attend long and dull meetings with management about moving cheese, kicking the ball running or working out how Atilla the Hun would have flogged computer services.
Beancounters at Agilitas have been asking around and have discovered that the channel is pretty confident, given the mess that the world is in.
Agilitas’s findings revealed confidence that the channel was working collaboratively to balance profit and purpose.
Many business leaders saw themselves in a good position when it came to delivering strong customer experiences, with confidence around that area returning to pre-pandemic levels.
Maintel has outsourced its inventory management and stock ownership to Agilitas.
The deal will see the cloud and managed comms provider outsource its hardware infrastructure using an as-a-service model.
Agilitas will manage the contract for five years through a “fully flexible service” that can be scaled up and down according to its requirements.
The service will include engineering resources, multi-vendor tech spares to support customers and nationwide storage and distribution of all project stock.
Research released today by Agilitas IT Solutions has revealed that optimism and confidence in the channel’s future remain high despite a challenging year.
The outfit’s Channel Confidence Index 2021 said that decision-makers give an overall confidence score of 7.4 out of a possible 10.
Marketing Director of Agilitas, Richard Eglon (pictured) said decision-makers across the channel were asked to rate their feelings of confidence on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being very pessimistic, 10 being very optimistic) in response to various topics.
The COVID-19 pandemic enabled the channel to implement a more environmentally-friendly way of working, according to Agilitas Marketing Director of Richard Eglon.
Eglon said that Sustainability continues to dominate corporate discussions on a global scale. With consumers more aware of their everyday choices and what this means for the environment, businesses must step up and take responsibility for the products and services that they sell.
“Companies are beginning to adjust and adapt their behaviours and attitudes towards sustainability, with many looking at circular methods to eliminate waste and re-use resources. This includes the products and devices that they use across the workforce”, he said.
Following the UK’s Brexit moves, global channel services provider, Agilitas IT Solutions opened its new European logistics hub in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to make sure that everything still works.
The outfit said it wanted to ensure its customers and partners are provided with continuity of service following the recent Brexit deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union.
The new hub will be used to hold technology hardware and enable Agilitas to continue EU business without impacting its logistics services and supply chain management.
Global channel services provider Agilitas IT Solutions, recently announced a 21.8 percent year-on-year increase in profits as the result of consistent company growth, geographic expansion.
Thanks to increased supply chain automation, Agilitas has seen its turnover grow to £14.038 million with EBITDA earnings amounting to £3.829 million. This represents 75 percent of business being associated with recurring revenue streams, plentiful new logo wins, and partners benefiting from the leverage and aggregation of recent infrastructure investment, it said.
Agilitas introduced six new service offerings for its partners that include SMART logistics, EPOS and Printer maintenance and Device-as-a-Service. New additions to its channel partner portfolio include ‘Born in the Cloud’ providers who are adopting Agilitas’ software enabled Inventory-as-a-Service to bolster their own service proposition.
Agilitas has completed its management buy-out led by Shaun Lynn alongside cash from the international private equity and growth equity investor Perwyn.
Perwyn has acquired a majority stake in Agilitas and will support the team’s growth ambitions including international expansion, service acceleration and potential M&A. Perwyn has a proven track record of taking ambitious companies on the next stages of their growth journey by providing institutional backing to support such growth initiatives.
Agilitas Chairman, Tom Kelly, was presented with an honorary OBE for services to the information and communications technology sector. The award was presented by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire, David Briggs MBE, during a ceremony held at Tatton Park.
Kelly has been a key figure in the channel industry and helped shape and grow many successful technology businesses over the past 30 years, including Logicalis, which under his stewardship became one of the UK’s leading systems integrator and managed service providers, before joining Agilitas as Chairman in 2015.
Kelly said he was honoured to be recognised for his contribution to the IT sector with this OBE.
“I feel privileged to work in an industry that still motivates and energises me after all these years. It is fantastic to be a part of a company like Agilitas, and to work closely with Shaun Lynn and his team to help make the business’s ambitious plans for sustained growth a reality.”
Digital transformation specialist Boxxe has selected Agilitas as a key partner in providing multi-vendor maintenance and professional services.
The partnership services guarantee the provision and delivery of replacement parts and engineering resource for workplace devices that include desktops and laptops or for critical server, storage and networking infrastructure to an agreed SLA, meaning if things go wrong businesses will be able to get up and running quickly and efficiently, minimising disruption.
Shaun Lynn, Agilitas’ CEO said: “We are really excited to be joining the Boxxe team as a key service partner. They [sic] have ambitious growth plans over the next few years and we are looking forward to standing shoulder-to-shoulder supporting them on that journey. We both share very similar values and our leading channel services coupled with boxxe’s excellent reputation will deliver an enhanced customer experience.”
Channel leaders attribute only 17 percent of their revenue to collaboration and partnerships with other channel companies, compared to 25 pe cent in 2017, according to new research.
Channel services provider, Agilitas, has released its ‘Connect to Collaborate’ guide, which is the second in the company’s series of ‘How-to’ reports. The reports are a central part of Agilitas’ channel insight campaign, ‘Connect – Voice of the Channel’, which was launched back in 2019.
The guide is based on the results of research commissioned by Agilitas, surveying leading channel decision-makers about their predictions for the future of the industry and the role that collaboration will play in this.
The most popular reasons given for partnering with other companies were that collaboration is more cost effective and speed/efficiency . Other reasons included keeping up with regulation, and meeting customer demand.
Agilitas CEO Shaun Lynn said: “It has always been clear that collaboration is one of the ways that our industry differs – and stands out – from others, and the COVID-19 crisis has illustrated this more clearly than ever. Collaboration is inherent in the nature of our industry; even the way we refer to other companies as ‘partners’, and our relationships, or ‘partnerships’ with them, shows how collaborative the channel is.
Global channel services provider, Agilitas IT Solutions, has partnered with ITEC so that it can offer its partners Agilitas’ expertise across IT inventory management, and ITEC’s wide range of IT services to its partners, alongside inventory management.
ITEC said that there was a growing demand in the number of partners looking for additional service offerings, mainly global inventory and logistics services. By collaborating with a specialist partner such as Agilitas, it meant that ITEC customers can take full advantage of this end-to-end service offering by using Agilitas’ expertise across complex IT inventory management.
ITEC and Agilitas decided to build a strategic alliance to expand both companies’ service offerings. This means that ITEC can offer its partners Agilitas’ Inventory-as-a-Service solution, and make use of its knowledge in complex international IT inventory management.
Channel services outfit Agilitas wants to expand into the security market in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Agilitas has become a Fortinet Integrator Partner and will offer the vendor’s products to its partner base.
Agilitas CEO Shaun Lynn said: “We understand from discussions with our valued partners that they are concerned about security in today’s changing world. We have decided to partner with Fortinet, meaning we can give our partners access to Fortinet’s first-class security solutions. As a vendor-agnostic solutions provider, we are proud to be able to incorporate Fortinet into our portfolio so quickly.”
Agilitas has a background in networking and storage, with relationships with vendors including Cisco, Juniper, Dell, NetApp and Oracle. The Fortinet deal extends coverage to security and the firm has also become an HP Business Partner to be able to deliver more PC and print services.
Agilitas IT Solutions said that it is expanding its offerings to include security solutions, becoming a Fortinet Integrator Partner.
The recent mass move to home working that came as a result of the COVID-induced lockdown has led to a significant increase in cyberattacks. Many organisations neglected to update security policies in the rush to implement home working, and there has been a rise in COVID-related phishing campaigns.
The comapany thinks it will resolve these problems by partnering with Fortinet, and offering Fortinet’s security solutions to its expanding partner base.
Agilitas IT Solutions has announced that its chief marketing officer, Richard Eglon, will leave the firm after eight years.
